Friday May 9

Defendant ID'd as shooter in fatal shooting

Caitlin Cassady / Bay City News

Two Hayward men sat quietly in orange jail suits and shackles Thursday during a preliminary hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court while a friend identified them as being connected to the fatal shooting and vehicle crash of a 25-year-old man on Highway 101 in Burlingame in September 2006.

Doyal "Ali" Malcolm Webber and Mohammed Rabah, both 18, have been charged with murder for the death of Lon Dell Wilson, a San Mateo resident.

The two men were part of a three-car caravan that got into a possible road rage incident with Wilson on northbound Highway 101 between Broadway and Millbrae Avenue around 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 30. Wilson and his car were struck with bullets and the car subsequently flipped and crashed, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.

Wilson was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Webber and Rabah were traveling with a group of friends from East Palo Alto and were on the way to San Francisco to "kick it" when they tangled with Wilson on the freeway.

One of the other men in the cars, Donald Reid, 19, testified in court Thursday and told deputy defense attorney Joe Cannon he was riding in a maroon Chevrolet Caprice when the shooting occurred.

Reid said that he, Webber, Rabah and Rabah's brother traveled from Hayward to East Palo Alto to meet up with a group of friends before the entire caravan of cars headed north.

Reid said that he was in the back seat with Webber while Rabah was in the passenger seat. At some point on the trip Reid noticed that a gray Honda Civic, Wilson's car, was driving alongside the car in front of the Caprice, a white Buick Skylark that was being driven by other friends.

When Reid noticed the Honda he said that the Wilson and the driver of the Skylark, Jose Morellos, seemed to be yelling and making hand gestures at each other.